Bill Moyers Journal tonight: Race and Politics

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032608U.shtml

Race and Politics
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

PBS Airtime: Friday, March 28, 2008, at 9 p.m. EDT on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).

Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today. The program takes a look at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission.

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[Uncle Joe]

1. Obligatory kick and recommendation for Moyer's heads up.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[cbayer]

2. He has been doing some really fantastic work.

To me, he's the most credible person on TV these days. Thanks for the heads up.

[grasswire]

3. thank you

wouldn't miss it for anything!

[SeattleGirl]

4. Thanks, babylonsister!

Moyers has been doing outstanding work, and this looks like another great piece!

[EFerrari]

5. Unless someone can confirm that the segment has a hopeful ending

I don't know if I can watch.

It's been heartbreaking to see this nation go backward for more than a decade.

I thought Katrina would just kill me, just watching it from the safety of my home.

We WATCHED THAT.

[babylonsister]

6. You can check out responses on here; what time does it come on

on the west coast?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

9. Boy O' do I know how you feel.

I've HAD to take a vacation from it all and focus on basic, everyday matters of life and living,...as if that's not enough to manage these days.

Difficult times. Tough times. :hangover:

[babylonsister]

16. You will adore Cory Booker, sfexpat2000. So hopeful and smart! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

29. I liked him, too. n/t

[L. Coyote]

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[malaise]

8. Watching

should be good.

[KatyaR]

10. Can we get Cory Booker to run for President?

He's pretty damn impressive . . . .

[babylonsister]

11. Just started here; all I can say is 'WOW'. nt

[bcoylepa]

12. Cory Booker - someone to watch

if you missed this - find it at pbs.org
what an amazing human - hope is alive

[babylonsister]

14. He's on here now: very impressive. nt

[babylonsister]

13. Whoever watches this and sees the racism in Chicago in the 60s

will no longer wonder at the anger of Rev. Wright. Maybe that's why Moyers did this.

[L. Coyote]

18. I was there and I was shocked. Unbelievable.

[babylonsister]

19. I wish you'd write an account and post it (and PM me if you do). nt

[L. Coyote]

21. That was before I saw ghettos in other parts of the world. I've seen far worse since.

I do not think I can do the task justice, as an outsider.

Back in '66 I had no idea there was a place like that in America, until I saw it.
It was a sort of secret, not mentioned in the media, news, etc. in my community until the Civil Rights movement made some inroads.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Anybody who doesn't recognize the persistence of racism is

choosing not to look and listen.

Back when I was working temp in the 1980s, I used to get sent out to manufacturing plants in the far outer suburbs. I'd make a comment about how out in the boonies the plant was, and people would say, "We don't want any (racial epithets) applying for jobs here." Then at lunch they'd sit around and talk about how lazy black people were, and they never appreciated my pointing out the contradiction.

[babylonsister]

17. I do wish we've progressed from that point, but the inequalities

are so glaring. That segment on current day dichotomies in Detroit was mindblowing, and so sad.

[SeattleGirl]

24. That's so true, Lydia.

People need to look at it, need to talk about it, need to bring it out into the open.

[L. Coyote]

20. NOW starts at this time in some West Coast markets.

[SeattleGirl]

23. Tuned in! n/t

[Raksha]

22. Thanks for the heads-up...I'm SOOOO glad I watched that!

Cory Booker is amazing...a true visionary, but down-to-earth and practical too. It's hard to believe he's only 38--his wisdom goes well beyond his years.

[L. Coyote]

25. Awesome show so far. If you missed it, see the video.

[SeattleGirl]

26. It is awesome.

And I really liked the guy that Moyers is interviewing said that rioting and such are the OUTCOMES of poverty, in response to those who said there was something wrong with poor people.

[L. Coyote]

27. Fred Harris is GREAT! We came on different boats, we are in the same boat now.

[SeattleGirl]

28. He's absolutely right.

And those who do not see that are blind.